A native American hitchhiker was picked up by a slick city man who was driving past the reservation.
As they were driving along, the Indian noticed a brown paper bag on the dashboard and inquired as to its contents.
The city man replied:
"It's a bottle of wine, I got it for my wife".
The Indian looked forward at the road, nodded his head solemnly, and said: "Good trade".
First ballpoint penIn 1945, the first ball point pen in the U.S. went on sale at Gimbels Department Stores for $12.95. In Jun 1945, Chicago businessman Milton Reynolds, during a visit to Buenos Aires, Argentina, sawLaszlo Biro’spen in a store, realized the pen’s sales potential and bought a few as samples. He returned to the U.S., anddesigned a copy in four months. He began production of his Reynolds’ Rocket pen, ignoring the patent rights of the Argentine manufacturer, Eversharp Co. On the first day of sale, $100,000 worth of his pen were sold. The initial success of Reynolds’ ballpoint pen as a fad did not last. It leaked and was unreliable. By 1948, the price fell below 50 cents. By 1951, his enterprise had failed.« |
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